CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 8

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Research Lesson 7
Worked Example for the Starter activity
Challenge topic: Changing communities

Starter activity: Bar graph as a primary source of information for learners

to answer questions about community issues.

People in a local community were given a list of nine issues (transport; housing;
environment; technology; health; crime rate; care homes; sport facilities; shopping) and
asked to identify the three they thought were the most important to a community. The
results are recorded in the bar graph.

Fig. 1. Community issues. Graph by Eric Holly, ‘The Importance of Community Issues.’ (Community
Newsletter, 20 June 2019).

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Suggested answers/ideas:
1 a Primary source as a double bar graph in a community newsletter.
b Eric Holly. Nothing else about him is mentioned. However, you might encourage
learners to search for the author of a source to verify credentials (this one is made
up).
c 20 June 2019.
d Perhaps to get local people’s views on what’s important to them in a community;
to identify the difference/similarity between what females and males thought
important in a community.
e Local community groups, the local council, perhaps the national government when
deciding how to allocate funds to communities.
f It’s mostly clear but would benefit from having a title for the number of people axis.
It might also be useful to see the questionnaire to clarify what the category ‘Crime
rate’ refers to (whether it’s increased crime rate or not), as well as what is meant by
‘Environment’ and ‘Technology’. Discussion can emphasise the importance of
creating clear sources of information from data in preparation for the main activity.

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